Non-refillable bottle.



F. PETERSON.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 13. 1915.

Patented July 18, 1916.

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rrE er? EoN-EEEILLAELE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1916.

Application filed May 13, 1915. Serial No. 27,750.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK P TERSON, a subject of the King of Norway, residing at New Rochelle, Westchester county, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to means for preventing the refilling of bottles and other receptacles, and the same has for-its object to provide a simple, efiicient and reliable device which may be readily attached to a bottle or other vessel, and become a permanent part thereof.

Further, said invention has} for its object to provide a protecting device for bottles and other vessels which is so constructed and arranged that it will be impossible to refill the same after the bottle or vessel has once been emptied.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a protecting device for bottles and other vessels having a valve yieldingly seated therein, and means for preventing the unseating of said. valve by agitating the bottle or vessel when the same is held in a vertical position. f

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a protecting device for bottles and other vessels which is so constructed and arranged that when the bottle is tilted to pouring position the holding means for the valve will be released under weight or pressure of the liquid contained within the bottle or vessel, and thus permit of the liquid being poured from the mouth thereof.

Further, said invention has for its object toprovide a protectingdevice for bottles and other vessels which may be readily secured to such bottle or vessel, and be automatically locked thereto when the same is properly seated or positioned upon the bottle or vessel. a

- Other objects will in part be obvious, and in part be pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein like'numerals of reference indicate like parts,'-

Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional vice constructed accordingto and embody-' ing my-said invention; Fig. 2 is a similar v 1e w showing the bottle tilted to pouring p0- sltlon, and the valve unseated to permit of: the passage of liquid therethrough, and F 1g. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. i

In said drawings 10 designates a bottle which may be of any suitable shape or size and provided at its upperend with a reduced portion 11 forming a shoulder 11*. The outer surface of the reduced portion 11 is provided with a screw-thread or screwthreads 12 molded directly in the material of the bottle, and 13 denotes a rim forming i a valve seat at the upper end of the reduced portion of the bottle.

Within the lower po-rtlon of the tubular member 15 is secured an obstructing member 20' which is. supported within the tubular member 15 in spaced relation thereto by verticalprojections or membe1-s'21, 21. The obstructingmember 20 is provided at its lower edge with a seriesof radialprojections 22, which are adapted to engage with the inner surface of the tubular body 15, and form a plurality of separated passages for the liquid. At its upper end said obstructing member 20 is provided with a central reduced portion 23. The'said member 20 and its reduced portion 23 are of such diameter relative to the tubular body 15., and the upper reduced end or neck 16 thereof as to form a staggered or'irregular annular passage 15 between said parts through which the liquid may flow in its passage from the body of the bottle to and through the mouth which serves to deflect a wire or other flexible device which may be inserted into the neck of the bottle with a view to unseating the valve. The member 20, and its reduced portion 23 are provided with a central vertical recess or socket 25 within which is movably disposed a valve 26 having a flange 27 at its lower end adapted to seat upon the valve seat 13 provided at the upperend of the bottle. The upper surface of the flange 27 is also provided with a concave, annular groove 28 which is designed to deflect a wire or other instrument which may be inserted into the device for the purpose of unseating or interfering in any way with the operation of the valve. I

29 denotes a spring disposed within the upper end of the socket 25 which serves to maintain the flange 27 of the valve 26 normally upon the valve seat 13.

In order to prevent the unseating of the valve 26 while the bottle is in a vertical position, which might be accomplished by jarring, agitating or otherwise manipulating the bottle in a vertical direction, a series of locking members or tumblers 80, 30 are supported at about an angle of 45 degrees'to the vertical axis of the bottle or vessel in in clined sockets 31, 31 arranged in the upper portion of the valve 26. The lower or outer ends of the tumblers 30', 30 are adapted to engage with an angular, annular recess or groove 3O provided in the inner surface of the obstructing member 20.

The sockets 31, 31 in the reduced upper end of the valve 26 are so arranged that when the bottle is held in a vertical position and arred or moved quickly in a vertical direction a shearing action occurs which serves to prevent the movement of the valve upwardly from its seat. When the bottle, however, is inclined to pouring position, as illustrated at Fig. 2, the upper of the tumblers 30, 30' will be caused to fall back into their respective recesses or sockets while the lower of said tumblers will b in a substantially horizontal or slightly downwardly inclined position, and thus permit of their being re turned into their respective sockets by movement of the valve 26 under the influence of the steady weight or pressure of the liquid contained within the vessel. As soon as the valve has been unseated liquid may pass freely fro-m the body of the bottle through the annular irregular or staggeredpassage 15 and throughthe neck of the protecting device 16.

The body portion of the bottle is provided in the-shoulder 11 with a recess 33 in which is disposed a pin 34: maintained normally projected by the action of a spring 35, and the tubular member 15 is provided in its underside with a-suitable recess adapted to receive the projecting end of said pin 34L when the protecting device is screwed upon the upper portion of the bottle 10, and hold said parts permanently locked together with the lower edge of said member 15 engaging firmly with the shoulder 11 of the bottle.

The operation of the device will be obvious from the foregoing description.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In in-apparatus of the character described, the combination with a bottle having a valve seat therein, of a valve for said seat, and means adapted to slide in a direction at an angle with respect to the vertical axis of the bottle, said means being arranged partly within the valve and partly within the portion of the bottle surrounding the valve for preventing the unseating of the valve when the bottle is agitated while supported in a vertical position, substantially as specified.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a bottle, of a top, a valve seat therein, a valve supported upon said seat, means for maintaining said valve normally seated, and means adapted to slide in a direction at an angle with respect to the vertical aXis of the bottle, said means being arranged partly in said top and partly in said valve for preventing the unseating of said valve when the bottle is agitated while supported in a vertical position, substantially as specified.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a bottle, of a top, a valve seat therein, a valve supported upon said seat, spring means for yieldingly maintaining said valve in position upon said seat, a plurality of members disposed in said top and angularly engaging said valve whereby to prevent the unseating of said valve when the bottle is agitated while sup ported in a vertical position, but to permit of the unseating thereof under the weight of the liquid in said bottle when the same is tilted to pouring position, substantially as specified.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a bottle, of a top, a valve seat therein, an obstructing member supported within said top, a valve movably mounted in said obstructing member, means for maintaining said valve normally seated, and holding members loosely supported in said valve and adapted to lie normally partly within the valve, and partly within said obstructing member for preventing the unseating of said valve when the bottle is agitated while supported in a vertical position, substantially as specified.

5. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with a bottle, of a top, a valve seat therein, an obstructing member supported within said top, said obstructing member having a I socket therein provided with an annular recess, a valve movably mounted in said socket, means for maintaining said valve normally seated, and a plurality of tumblers loosely mounted and adapted to lie normally partly Within said valve and to extend into the recess Within provided with an annular recess, a valve movably mounted in said socket, means for maintaining said valve normally seated, and

a plurality of tumblers loosely mounted in said obstructing member at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the bottle and adapted to lie partly Within said valve and to extend into the recess Within said socket for preventing the unseating of said valve When the bottle is agitated While supported in a V81? tical position, substantially as specified.

Signed at the city of New York, in the county and State of 'New York, this 27th day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

CONRAD A. DIETERIOH, Josnrrr G. QUINN, Jr.

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Washington, D. C. 

